# Backup to DigitalOcean Spaces fails if uploads and backup are both set to S3

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**Created:** [18.Январь.2019 15:21:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-to-digitalocean-spaces-fails-if-uploads-and-backup-are-both-set-to-s3/106916 "2019-01-18T15:21:11Z")\
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> [@gerhard](#):
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> Essentially you need to either use two different buckets or a prefix for the backup bucket.

So my solution of a prefix for the _images_ bucket was the only one that didn’t work. 🙂

That explains it. Thanks!

FWIW, it would seem that if the multisite default of sticking backups in a backups directory would solve the two-bucket problem, but you’ve probably mucked with this code enough for now.

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